The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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Page xxxiv
... said it was too late , and insisted , that they should continue to live as they had lived before . To this the Dean in his turn con- fented , and fuffered her to dispose entirely of her own fortune , by her own name , to a public ...
... said it was too late , and insisted , that they should continue to live as they had lived before . To this the Dean in his turn con- fented , and fuffered her to dispose entirely of her own fortune , by her own name , to a public ...
Page xxxix
... said , " bring it here : " and when the same servant was breaking a large hard coal , he said , " That is a fstone ; " you blockhead . " From this time he was perfectly filent , till the latter end of October 1745 , and then died ...
... said , " bring it here : " and when the same servant was breaking a large hard coal , he said , " That is a fstone ; " you blockhead . " From this time he was perfectly filent , till the latter end of October 1745 , and then died ...
Page xli
... said , which no man affected to de spise , but those which were without it .. But his converfation abounded with turns of wit of a higher kind . The Dean also greatly excelled in telling a story , his fentences were short and ...
... said , which no man affected to de spise , but those which were without it .. But his converfation abounded with turns of wit of a higher kind . The Dean also greatly excelled in telling a story , his fentences were short and ...
Page xlii
... said he , my kitchen - wench " has a scullion that does her drudgery , and " one part of the business of my groom " and footman , is constantly to clean her " shoes by turns ; " if they scrupled this , 66 the - the treaty was at an end ...
... said he , my kitchen - wench " has a scullion that does her drudgery , and " one part of the business of my groom " and footman , is constantly to clean her " shoes by turns ; " if they scrupled this , 66 the - the treaty was at an end ...
Page xlviii
... said John usually chewed , called pigtail . But his legacy to Mr. Robert Gratton is ftill more extraordinary . Item , I bequeath to Mr. • Robert Gratton , prebendary of St. Andrew's , my 6 to strong box , on condition of his giving the ...
... said John usually chewed , called pigtail . But his legacy to Mr. Robert Gratton is ftill more extraordinary . Item , I bequeath to Mr. • Robert Gratton , prebendary of St. Andrew's , my 6 to strong box , on condition of his giving the ...
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